Best/Worst Spin-Off Ideas?

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ZICSOFT

Saturday, June 22, 2002 9:45 PM

Here's my favorite spinoff fantasy. Spike gets arrested. He's thrown into a cell with Faith. A guy comes in, says they're both gonna get paroled and he's their parole officer. The PO is a demon, of course.

Except, as everyone keeps pointing out, ED has other comittments. (At least that's the official story. And she is doing a lot of work. But no starring roles. Nothing like the exposure she was getting on Buffy. I have to wonder if "has other comittments" isn't the Hollywood equivalent of "left to spend more time with his family" which is what corporation say when they fire an exec.) So no Faith.

Still, it would be fun to see Spike cut loose from the Scoobies and teamed up with somebody more like him.

Another possibility is something centered around Dawn. Actually, that's not a possibility, that's a certainty -- no way Fox will close down the show when SMG leaves, and that can't be more than a year or two away. Somehow, I don't find myself looking forward to that. I like the character, and I like the actress. But how much can you do with a show about somebody's little sister?

ZICSOFT

Saturday, June 22, 2002 9:54 PM

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Originally posted by MarinO:
Um, I'm really inclined to beg Joss for a FRAY television series based on the comic book. It's so amazingly good, and the character is quite different from Buffy.

When I think of Fray, I think movie. All that futuristic stuff begs for a big screen and a bigger special effects budget.

Tempting to play "Who plays Melaka Fray?" Top of my list:

Fairuza Balk. But Whedon would probably prefer someone less well known.

FURYFIRE

Sunday, June 23, 2002 12:14 AM

IS she well known? Never heard of her.

Uh, is the tag the same as the signature?

ZICSOFT

Sunday, June 23, 2002 1:41 AM

Jeez, where ya been? The Craft.

American History X

Lots more:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/people/people_index/0,4128,168930,00.html

Not to mention that when you go to her web site

http://www.fairuza.com

You get an audio greeting that ends, "Blessed be"! Who better to play a post-apocalypse slayer?

MOJOECA

Sunday, June 23, 2002 2:23 AM

Fairuza Balk has the look, but she's a little old (28). And she's not well known at all. Those films are years old. Her last, to my recollection, was ALMOST FAMOUS, ironically enough. I remember her long ago in that RETURN TO OZ(?) movie ... that brings back memories.

Out there suggestions:
--Eliza Dusku as Fray would be perfect, but obviously... Goes to show how similar Faith and Mel are. At the Comicon last year, a fan commented on the similarity and Joss answered that he was a hack. LOL
--Jennifer Garner, though she doesn't have the tough street girl look.
--Jessica Alba, but Joss, in his own words, only works with real actors. And he hates DA -- he conspired to get it cancelled for chrissakes!!
--Maybe we'll see if SMALLVILLE's Kristen Kreuk has range? Okay, now I'm beginning to sound ridiculous.

--- Joe

NOVAGRASS

Sunday, June 23, 2002 4:54 AM

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Originally posted by mojoeca:

--Maybe we'll see if SMALLVILLE's Kristen Kreuk has range? Okay, now I'm beginning to sound ridiculous.

No no no... ridiculous be you not! I think that if Kreuk's hair were ratted up, her make-up toned down, she was made to look a bit dissheveled, a scar was planted above her lip, and she worked out a bit, she'd, physically, be great for the role, IMO (so maybe that's a lot of "ifs"

) Can't say much for her acting ability, as she's been good-girl Lana Lang and a Disney Snow White so far in her career...

Eliza Dushku would be great.

Linda Cardellini might work.

If Thora Birch were still built like she was in American Beauty, I think she could have played Fray.

I think that if Fairuza Balk were about 10 years younger she'd be an excellent choice... as long as she wasn't wearing all that goth-y make-up.

Rose McGowan, maybe? If she were 10 years younger?

blahblahblah

--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--

"Nice guys can only get so mad." Fillion on Mal

ZICSOFT

Sunday, June 23, 2002 9:09 PM

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Originally posted by mojoeca:

--Eliza Dusku as Fray would be perfect, but obviously... Goes to show how similar Faith and Mel are. At the Comicon last year, a fan commented on the similarity and Joss answered that he was a hack. LOL

I don't see that much similarity between Melaka and Faith. They're both streetwise two-fisted babes who like a tough crowd, true. But Faith is impulsive, sexually charged, self-destructive. Melaka is calmer, more detached.

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--Jennifer Garner, though she doesn't have the tough street girl look.

So what else does she have going for her? A few fight scenes in a bad tv spy story don't make her an action hero.

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--Jessica Alba, but Joss, in his own words, only works with real actors. And he hates DA -- he conspired to get it cancelled for chrissakes!!

I hear he was on the grassy knoll too!

Anyway, here's a hot flash: JA can't act.

Quote:

--Maybe we'll see if SMALLVILLE's Kristen Kreuk has range? Okay, now I'm beginning to sound ridiculous.

I'm not going there!

--- Joe

BLAISE

Monday, June 24, 2002 6:51 AM

My 2 cents:

DEFENITELY a slayer anthology series. Have any of you guys read the buffy novel, 'Tales of the Slayer, Vol 1'?? I didn't think I would like it at all, but i'm hangind for vol 2 now. There's a comic series about other slayers too I think, 'The Lost Slayers'? I think at least, I haven't read any, but i've seen them in a comic book shop, but they might have been called something else, i'm not big on comics. 'The Book of Fours' was also very, had a lot of slayer history in it. I just love slayer history! Does noone else get excited about this?

Blaise

BOBKNAPTOR

Monday, June 24, 2002 10:12 PM

MMmmmmm... Fairuza...

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I think that if Fairuza Balk were about 10 years younger she'd be an excellent choice... as long as she wasn't wearing all that goth-y make-up.

First, Even if she is 28, I still think she looks pretty young. Maybe not high school young, but definitely not washed up old has-been.

Second, Mmmmmm.... Fairuza! ;) I think she's gorgeous, even (especially) with the gothy makeup. Faith always did the sister of darkness thing, and I think it worked. I think that Fairuza's dark gothy ways would work nicely in the buffy-verse.

Just relax, and take your pants off.

ZICSOFT

Monday, June 24, 2002 11:08 PM

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Originally posted by bobknaptor:
I think that Fairuza's dark gothy ways would work nicely in the buffy-verse.

Just picture her saying "I do not know you am not lying. Where'd you learn to talk?" I think we have our Slayer!

I don't think the Slayer has to be a teenager. Hey Buffy is 21 already, and SMG is a couple years older than that. Besides Fray is obviously someone who's been around the block more than a couple times.

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